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- Fundamental Group
- Symplectic Structure
- Tangent Cone
- Mapping Class Group
- Fuchsian Group
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Goldman, W.M. (1985). Representations of fundamental groups of surfaces. In: Geometry and Topology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075218
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